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When a down-on-her-luck divorcée meets a determined-to-dominate detective, they find out that falling in love can be murder. . . . Nell Dysart's in trouble. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is sleepwalking through life until her best friend finagles a job for her with a shabby little detective agency that has lots of potential and a boss who looks easy to manage.Gabe McKenna isn't doing too well, either. His detective agency is wasting time on a blackmail case, his partner has decided he hates watching cheating spouses for money, and his ex-wife has just dumped him . . . again. The only thing that's going his way is that his new secretary looks efficient, boring, and biddable.But looks can be deceiving, and soon Nell and Gabe are squaring off over embezzlement, business cards, vandalism, dognapping, blackmail, Chinese food, unprofessional sex, and really ugly office furniture, all of which turn out to be the least of their problems. Because soon, there are murders. And shortly after that, Nell and Gabe start falling in love. . . .
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0(7/12/11) I really loved this book, Crusie turns so many romantic tropes on their head. Good sex does not equal true love, and true love does not mean no relationship problems. The villains were a bit hard to keep track of, and the timeline was equally slippery, but the lovely main characters and their classic Crusie wit more than made up for any bumps in the road.
Reread (4/14): Still absolutely love this book's opening, still realize the exact moment when things get really zany on the caper side of things. I appreciated the complexity of Riley a bit more this time around, despite his "immature front" he's practically the sex shaman of the group, dispensing healing and orgasms in his wake.
(9/25/17) Loved it this time around, but Lu and Jase are just ridiculous. I'm glad Gabe talked sense into them, but it was a stretch to get them all there.
(8/30/20) So I’m now three years younger than Nell, but my kids are between 5 and 2. It’s a whole different ball game. I always forget about her second job, pacing-wise it’s a lull.
0The one where Nell goes to work for Gabe at a detective agency. She’s recently divorced, numb to everything and suddenly wakes up to anger, boredom, hunger, desire. There’s a bit of a mystery throughout the book and LOTS of characters.
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